Casio DW-280 cleaning

Cleaning a "new" watch.


I bought this Casio DW-280 from ebay and arrived some days ago.
The watch came VERY dirt! I don't know how anyone can keep the watches so dirt. It is so easy to clean up the watch... let me show the cleaning process of this watch.
First thing is to disassembly the watch. In this case I've disassembled all the watch except the buttons (too much work for today). Then put all the parts into hot water with some cleaning product. I use a very good Spanish product KH-7.
Dont' worry! the module was not inside the water :) I left the module and the gasket out of the water. The module 1000 manual could be found on Casio's web site.
After some minutes inside the water and adding some soap, brush the watch. I use an old toothbrush, I think all the people use toothbrushes to clean their watches.
After brushing is time to dry. Some minutes over a dry tissue and then a final hand dry with the tissue or some clean and dry fabric. Take care with the moisture and dust inside the housing. To clean any water mark or dust spot inside the watch, it is necessary to disassembly again the watch.
After drying, the module has to be assembled again. It is important to put some silicone grease to the gasket, it helps to seal the back cover of the watch. Very important if you want to use the watch underwater. It is also important to add grease to the button gaskets, but as said before, too much work for today.
Close the watch!
The watch is clean and ready to be worn!

Casio SUF-110 and DW-280 arrived!

Casio SUF-110 and DW-280 arrived!
Pics and review soon

Timex Helix - Dive watch

I own this watch from time ago but never did a review (mini-review) of it. I think I have to. It is a digital watch with scuba diving functions. Not a diver shaped watch but a diver at the end.

The watch is quite big. It is much bigger than the Casio DW-280, and that Casio is not a tinny F91w.

The screen is quite big, it has 4 information lines. The main line has large and easy to read digits, the secondary line has smaller but big enough digits and the upper and lower lines have smaller digits.

It has the basic functions such as time, alarm, stopwatch and timer. To select the functions the crown has to be turned when in standard position. Quite original for a digital watch. Pressing down the crown the typical Indiglo illumination from Timex is activated. The crown also has two pull out positions for adjustments and to recalling saved data.

In the lower part of the watch there is a lock button that blocks the button and crown functions. It is a useful function to avoid accidental actuation during diving.

Apart of the basic functions, this watch has two dive modes. The Dive Track and the Dive Chrono. The Dive Track seems more useful, it gives you the current depth, the temperature, the diving time and the hour. After the dive you can recall the diving time, the max depth and the temperature (I think it is the min. temp.)

The Dive Chrono mode is quite strange, dives are considered 'segments' and the watch adds the diving times depending on the watch configuration. I think it is a kind of freedive mode but not so successful. The watch logs the last 20 segments (dive time and max depth), it also logs the surface time. I've never used this mode.

The watch could be set up in Metric or Imperial modes.

The band quality is quite high taking into account the price of the watch and the many functions it offers.

I've not deeply used the watch, it only has two dives. One is shown on the picture, max. depth of 10m and around 1h of dive time. The second dive was a little bit deeper (around 15m) but shorter. The watch worked perfectly and gave same measurements as my dive computer (Uwatec Prime).

It is quite curious that the watch is rated water resistant 50m! So suitable for swimming, white water rafting, no snorkeling water related work, and fishing... but it is able to measure the depth!

The hilarious user manual could be downloaded here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28993166/Timex-Helix

 I hope I will use it deeper this summer; I will try to understand the Dive Chrono mode and see if it is useful for freedive.

In my opinion it is a very nice watch for diving or snorkeling. It is a toy not a dive computer, so I will never suggest to use it as a primary depth meter. It also seems to be a good present for child but be careful with it, to try to go deeper is a VERY dangerous game. Remember freedive is not a game it could be a HIGH RISK sport if you don't follow the rules.

Casio SUF-110

Here you are some pictures of my "new" Casio SUF-110.

It is a 90s Surfing timer watch from Casio, it is using the module 942 and I'm looking for the instructions of this watch. Anyone can send me a copy?

This watch came in better condition than the DW-280 of a previous post. Just a simple clean of the watch, battery replacement and gasket greasing was enough to give a second life to this nice vintage watch.

The only problem of the watch were 2 scratches on the screen. One was big but not deep while the other is small but deep. To remove not deep scratches is quite easy using the correct product. I'm using Xerapol for this repairs. The deep scratches need a big polish of the screen, using a fine water sand paper before the Xerapol. I did not try to remove the deep scratch, in my opinion the watch looks nice (could you see the scratch?).  

Casio watches on the way

Watches I'm waiting for:

3 watches are on the way. Two from Deutschland and one from the UK.

The 3 watches are Casio. One SUF-100, at least this is what it seems from the ebayer picture, the second one is a DW-280 and the third one an ARW-320.

I've been looking for an ARW-320 for some time. It has a pressure sensor, close to some actual G-Shocks and Pathfinders. Thhe main functions are an altimeter, a depthmeter (alti-depth) and a barometer. A lot of functions for a watch launched to the market on the 1989! Yes more than 20 years ago!

Here you are some pictures from the auctions let's see what arrives :)

I'll post more pictures as soon as I get them.